My nephew got a Samsung Moment this week, and we tried to get his tethering to work.
1) He installed PdaNet from the Android Marketplace (or whatever it's called).
2) He started up that program, but it told him he needed to install drivers on his XP laptop computer first. It gave him a hyperlink.
3) On his laptop, he went to that hyperlink, which was simply a PdaNet installation page. He downloaded the installer and started it.
4) The installer told him to put his phone into USB Debugging mode and connect it to the computer so that the computer would install drivers.
5) He indeed set the phone into USB Debugging, and connected it to the computer.
6) Nothing at all happened. No drivers, no device in the Device Manager, nothing. I ran USBDeview to see if a preexisting driver had grabbed the phone, but saw nothing out of the ordinary.
7) A Google search suggested to us that we install the Samsung PC Studio (or whatever it's called) on the laptop. We did so.
8) We then retried installing the PdaNet client on the laptop. Again, nothing.
What do we do now?
Are there any other settings on the phone that we need to check?
Is it possible that everything is now installed correctly, and we should simply try to use PdaNet? I see no instructions--what all do we need to do? Turn on PdaNet, connect the phone to the computer, and then do what?
Some sites mention a "Mobile Internet Sharing" option, but others say that there is no such option on the Sprint Samsung Moment. Is there one there? Should we turn it on?
I'm sorry that this sounds so amateurish, but I'm used to my own Windows Mobile, which has no difficulty with multiple kinds of tethering. But I would like to help my nephew.